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FBI of USA not cooperating with India in hijacking investigation: CBI (Excerpts)

Vishwas Mohan/ TNN

New Delhi: The CBI appears to have a feeling that the US investigating agency FBI is not extending full cooperation in the 1999 Indian Airlines flight IC-814 hijacking, according to a report in the 7 February editions of Times of India.
This came through onTuesday, the day when the Indian agency secured the conviction of three accused [one Nepali in Patiala] who provided logistics to the five Pakistani hijackers and two of their associates.
Referring to the case which is also being independently probed by FBI, CBI director Vijay Shanker said India had extended all help to the US besides giving clear evidence of all the seven absconders who are present in Pakistan.
But similar cooperation (sharing of information)was not forthcoming from the other side.
FBI had also registered a case in this regard as one US national, Jeanne Moore, was travelling in IC-814 when it was hijacked in December 1999.
Wondering why FBI is yet to conclude its investigation, the CBI chief said the Indian agency had shared all the details with the US agency but the latter had not at all mentioned what kind of difficulties it was facing in the probe.

[Note: The Nepali national is probing the verdict. Kashmiri militants hijacked the flight from Kathmandu to New Delhi to Afghanistan. India falsely accused a tall, fat youth for the hijacking and complicity with Pakistanis. He is now dead. The hijack soured relations between Nepal and India and the tourist industry took a severe beating. India wanted to place special security at Tribhuvan International Airport after the hijacking.]
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